CH 3 – GRAVITATION

Q1. Earth attracts apple from the tree and it falls on it but the earth does not
move towards the apple. Why?

Q2. A ball is projected vertically upwards with an initial velocity of u goes to a

maximum height h before coming to ground. What is the value of h?

Q3. Is value of ‘g’ same everywhere?

Q4. A stone and feather are thrown from a tower, both the objects should reach
the ground at same time but it does not. Why?

Q5. Show that the weight of the body on moon =1/6 of the weight of the body in
earth

Q6. The mass of earth is 6x1024 kg and that of the moon is 7.4x 1022kg. If the
distance between the earth and the moon is 3.84x105km. Calculate the force
exerted by the earth and the moon.

Q7. A ball is dropped from a height 2.50 m above the floor, (a) Find the speed v
with which it reaches the floor, (b) The ball now rebounds. The speed of the ball is
decreased to 3u/4 due to this collision. How high will the ball rise?

Q8. A ball thrown upwards takes 4 s to reach the maximum height. Find (a) the
initial speed with which it was thrown, and (b) the maximum height reached.

Q9. A stone is dropped from a cliff at 2:30:30 p.m. (hour: minute: second).
Another stone is dropped from the same point at 2:30:31 p.m. Find the
separation between the stones at

(a) 2:30:31 p.m.,

(b) 2:30:35 p.m.